STILLSTAND by Michael Akstaller & Lena Schattenberg
Residency @Im_flieger, January 2026
In their collaboration, Lena Schattenberg and Michael Akstaller explore the relationship between repetition and apparent stasis, how internal loops manifest themselves physically and sonically, and how new impulses can arise from this. In an age of constant stimuli, STILLSTAND deliberately focuses on the small, the easily overlooked – repetition becomes a means of shifting perception, an act of reusing, a political gesture.
The two artists pursue their individual artistic research but remain in dialogue with each other and with the space. Akstaller explores the architecture with sound, Schattenberg with the body – they meet in searching, in friction, in subtle shifts. STILLSTAND consciously rejects linear narration, opening fields of associations and individual perspectives instead, in which viewers and performers alike may lose, observe, and reorient themselves.
Fri 30.1.2026 // 19.30
Work-in-progress showing // Bräuhausgasse 40, 1050 Wien // pay as you wish/can // drinks & food
Photos: Franzi Kreis/Im_flieger